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Song of the Drowned
August 29, 2009
Scattered across the ocean floor
Coin eyes and bloated faces
Lay the corpses of the drowned
Different ages different races
Spongy, puffy, rotted skin
Lying in a watery grave
Dragged into the murky depths
Pulled down by foamy waves.
The mermaids come to collect their souls
For who else is there to take them?
Those haunted waters block the way
Between they and He who made them.
Those wretched souls, never again
Will see either sun nor ground
Say a prayer for these tortured souls
The spirits of the drowned.
© Yu Kun Z., Toronto, ON, Canada
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This article has 3 comments.
DomClaudeFrollo GOLD said...
on Jan. 18 2012 at 8:54 pm
Thank you. :) It was actually inspired by a running story line I have about a little girl who drowned, which in turn is inspired by the poem A Drowned Maiden's Hair. (which I highly recommend, though I do not recall who wrote it).
__horizon133 PLATINUM said...
on Jan. 17 2012 at 8:34 pm
a well written piece, but tormented. what inspired this?
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